The Real Rachel Dolezal?

Just when we thought Rachel Dolezal had disappeared from the
public eye she has resurfaced on an episode of The Real. Earlier this year Rachel Dolezal, civil-rights activist,
was caught on video denying the fact that she is a white person pretending to
be a black person. Eventually she was “outed” by her parents and this created a
huge controversy nationwide.

Monday on Fox’s The
Real Dolezal finally admitted to being born white. All of the panelists who
are women of color—Adrienne Bailon, Tamar Braxton, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, and
Tamera Mowry Housley—asked Dolezal pointed questions about her experience with
cultural appropriation, race, racism, and the criminal justice system.

When questioned about deceiving people, Dolezal replied
that, no, she certainly didn’t. “Don’t we all have the right to be exactly who
we are?” she asked the audience. Throughout the interview she continued to try
to justify her cultural interpretation of race by saying “I think that
sometimes how we feel is more powerful than how we’re born,” she said. “And
blackness can be defined as philosophical, cultural, biological. You know, it’s
a lot of different things to a lot of different people.”

Tamera Mowry gave a passionate response to Rachel’s tired
argument that her personal identification somehow cancels out her actual
background. Mowry said that she identifies as a black woman but loves and
acknowledges the fact that she’s biracial—she’s not erasing who she is the way
Rachel Dolezal tried to.

Dolezal finally came through saying, “I acknowledge that I
was biologically born white to white parents.” In response, the audience got on
their feet and started cheering. “But I identify as black,” Dolezal continued, which
basically proved that she has learned nothing at all from being exposed.